Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois, Volume 2 |
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A. P. FIELD action affidavit affirmed with costs aforesaid appeal appellee assigned for error assumpsit attorney authority averment Bank of Illinois bill of exceptions bond Breese cause was tried certificate Circuit Court clerk common law consideration contract counsel debt decision declaration deed default defendant in error delivered the opinion demurrer dollars evidence execution facts filed Gale's Stat given Horatio G Ibid indictment issue JOHN judge Judgment affirmed Judgment reversed Judgment was rendered jurisdiction justice Land Office LOCKWOOD McClintoc ment Morgan county mortgage motion moved the Court objection overruled party payment peace person plaintiff in error plea pleaded possession proceedings promise promissory note prove public lands purchase record recover refused reversed with costs Sangamon county scire facias seal sheriff Sidney Breese SMITH statute suit summons Supreme Court term testimony thereof tion trial verdict void WILLIAM witness writ of error
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Page 427 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
Page 427 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from which they are taken.* 906.
Page 87 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties or laws of the United States...
Page 227 - The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Page 245 - When a divorce shall be decreed, the court may make such order touching the alimony and maintenance of the wife, the care, custody and support of the children, or any of them, as, from the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case, shall be fit, reasonable and just...
Page 427 - The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form.
Page 91 - emit ' is never employed in describing those contracts by which a State binds itself to pay money at a future day, for services actually received, or for money borrowed for present use ; nor are instruments executed for such purposes, in common language, denominated 'bills of credit.
Page 260 - Illinois territory heretofore existing, and in conformity to the provisions of the same, without fraud or collusion, shall be held to a specific performance of their contracts or indentures ; and such negroes and mulattoes as have been registered in conformity with the aforesaid laws, shall serve out the time appointed by said laws : Provided however, That the children hereafter born of such person, negroes or mulattoes, shall become free, the males at the age of twenty-one years, the females at...
Page 347 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 155 - ... the defendant moved the court " to instruct the jury to find for the defendant upon the ground that the negligence, if any, through which the plaintiff was injured was the negligence of the fellow-servants of the plaintiff, for which the defendant is not liable.